Research Advisees
Current Advisees:
Doctoral
- Ali Al-Ramadan, Completed Preliminary Exams
- Joshua Behler, Completed Preliminary Exams
- Drew Guarnera, Completed Preliminary Exams, Candidacy, and Prospectus
Masters
- Jacovetty, Mitch
- Villallobos Herrera, Giovanni
Undergraduates
- Parker Higgins
- Nichoals Weber
Past Advisees:
Doctoral
- Adrian Marcus
- Semantic Driven Program Analysis, Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, August 2003.
- Professor, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas
- Michael Collard
- Meta-Differencing: An Infrastructure to Support Source Code Difference Analysis,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, August 2004.
- Associate Professor, The University of Akron, Akron Ohio
- Huzefa Kagdi
- Mining Software Repositories To Support Software Evolution,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, August 2008.
- Professor & Chair, Florida Gulf Coast University
- Maen Hammad
- Supporting Code-Design Consistency During Software Evolution,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, May 2010.
- Professor, Hashemite University, Jordan
- Bonita Sharif
- Empirical Assessment of UML Class Diagram Layout Based on Architectural Importance,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, May 2010.
- Associate Professor, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
- Andrew Sutton
- Understanding and Maintaining C++ Generic Libraries,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, August 2010.
- Principle Lock3 Software Inc., Kent, Ohio
- Natalia Dragan
- The Emergent Laws of Method and Class Stereotypes in Object Oriented Software,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, December 2010.
- Lecturer Assistant Professor, Department of Managment and Information Systems, Kent State University.
- Hakam Alomari
- Supporting Software Engineering via Lightweight Static Program Slicing,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, August 2012.
- Assistant Professor, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
- Nouh Alhindawi
- Supporting Source Code Comprehension During Software Evolution And Maintenance,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, August 2013.
- Associate Professor, Jadara University, Jordan.
- Omar Meqdadi
- Understanding And Identifying Large-Scale Adaptive Changes From Version Histories,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, August 2013.
- Associate Professor, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan.
- Abdulkareem Q. Alali
- Improved Methods for Mining Software Repositories to Detect Evolutionary Couplings,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, August 2014.
- Programmer Analysis, Financial Investments, Seattle.
- Gregory DeLozier
- Feature Location Using Unit Test Coverage In An Agile Development Environment,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, August 2014.
- Domain Architect for Enterprise Software Tools, Progressive Inc., Cleveland Ohio.
- Saleh Alnaeli
- Empirically Examining the Roadblocks to the Automatic Parallelization and Analysis of Open Source Software Systems,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, May 2015.
- Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley.
- Abrar AlAbed AlHaq
- Applying Graph Mining Techniques to Solve Complex Software Engineering Problems,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, December 2015.
- Assistant Professor, Yarmouk University, Jordan.
- Nahla Abid
- Automatic Generation and Assessment of Source-code Method Summaries,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, May 2017.
- Assistant Professor, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia.
- Christian Newman
- A Source Code Transformation Language to Support Software Evolution,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, August 2017.
- Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
- Michael Decker
- srcdiff: Syntactic Differencing to Support Software Maintenance and Evolution,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, August 2017.
- Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
- Brian Bartman
- Supporting Software Exploration with a Syntactic Aware Source Code Query Language,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, August 2017.
- Software Engineer, Lock3 Software Inc., Ohio.
- Basma Alqadi
- Slice-Based Cognitive Complexity Metrics for Defect Prediction,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, August 2020.
- Assistant Professor, Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Naser Al Madi
- Modeling Eye Movement Control for the Assessment of Programming Proficiency,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, August 2020.
- Assistant Professor, Colby College, Waterville, Maine
- Reem AlSuhaibani
- A Comprehensive Examination of Factors for Assessing the Quality of Method Names in Source Code,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, May 2022.
- Assistant Professor, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Salwa Aljehane
- Eye Movements Characterizing for the Assessment of Expertise in Source Code Reading,
Ph.D. Dissertation, Kent State University, May 2022.
- Assistant Professor, University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
Masters (Thesis)
- Joshua Behler, Assessing Python Bindings of C Libaries with Respect to Python Idiomatic Conformance, M.S. Thesis, Kent State University, December 2023
- Zane Doleh, Stereocode: A Tool for Automatic Identification of Method Stereotypes, M.S. Thesis, Kent State University, December 2021
- Corey Bryant, iTrace: An Infrastructure to Support Eye-Tracking Studies in Integrated Development Environments, M.S. Thesis, Kent State University, August 2021
- Reem AlSuhaibani, Part-of-Speech Tagging of Soruce Code Identifiers Using Programming Language Context Versus Natural Language Context,
M.S. Thesis, Kent State University, Dec. 2015.
- Daniel Mosora, Mosaicode: Supporting Software Evolution via Visual Exploration of Multidimensional Versioned Data,
M.S. Thesis, Kent State University, Dec. 2013.
- Brian Bartman, srcQL: A Syntax-Aware Query Language for Exploring Source Code ,
M.S. Thesis, Kent State University, Dec. 2013.
- Christian Newman, Normalizing Refactorings: Simplifying the Construction of Source Code Transformations,
M.S. Thesis, Kent State University, Dec. 2013.
- Ryan Holeman, Identifying Programming Idioms in C++ Generic Libraries,
M.S. Thesis, Kent State University, Graduated December 2009.
- Alice Lewis, A Case Study for a Lightweight Impact Analysis Tool, M.S. Thesis, Kent State University, May 2009.
- Abdulkareem Q. Alali, An Empirical Characterization of Commits In Software Repositories, M.S. Thesis,
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. May 2008.
- Shehnaaz Dawoodi, Assessing the Comprehension of UML Class Diagrams via Eye Tracking, M.S. Thesis,
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. December 2007.
- Natalia Dragan, Method Stereotypes and their Automatic Identification, M.S. Thesis,
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. December 2005.
- Andrew Sutton, Accurately Reverse Engineering UML Class Models from C++, M.S. Thesis,
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. August 2005.
- Louis Feng, Source Viewer 3D – An Application Framework for Software Visualization,
M.S. Thesis, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. Graduated August 2003. Went on to Doctoral Program in Graphics at UC-Davis
- Huzefa Kagdi, Using an Island Grammar Approach forLightweight Parsing: A C++ to srcML Translator, M.S. Thesis,
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. May 2003.
- Greg Dunlap, Visualizing Object Oriented Software in a Virtual Reality Environment, M.S. Thesis,
The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. Graduated December, 2001.
- Bradford Smith, Combining Gene Splicing and Genetic Algorithms, M.S. Thesis, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. May 1999.
Masters (non-thesis)
- Anita Howald, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. Graduated: 5/2002
- Elizabeth Brooks, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. Graduated: 12/2001
- Andrian Marcus, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. Graduated: 5/2001
- Tony Colston, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. Graduated: 12/2000
- Zhijun Liu, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. Graduated: 8/2000
- Ravi Seetharam, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. Graduated: 12/1999
- Naveen Valluri, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. Graduated: 5/1999
- Sudarshan Dhrarmapuri, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. Graduated: 5/1999
Undergraduate Honors Thesis
- P. J. Leyden, Rendering UML Class Diagrams to Support Layout Design, Kent State University, Graduated 12/2019.
- Daniel Mosora, Towards a Quantitative Evaluation of Layout Using Graphic Design Principles, Kent State University, Graduated: 5/2012.
- Dylan Shearer, A Tool and Technique for Enforcing Constraints Between Documentary Comments and Source Code, Kent State University, Graduated: 5/2007 – co-directed with Dr. M. Collard (lead)
NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
- Mitch, Jacovetty, Kent State University, (srcML) Fall 2023
- Nichoals Weber, Kent State University, (srcML) Summer 2023
- Parker Higgins, Kent State University, (srcML) Summer 2022, Summer 2023
- Joshua Behler, Kent State University, (iTrace) Summer 2020
- Praxis (Gabriel) Weston, Kent State University, (iTrace) Summer 2020
- Vlas Zyrianov, Kent State University, (iTrace) Fall 2018, Spring 2019
- Zachary Buchanan, Kent State University, (iTrace) Summer 2018
- PJ Leydon, Kent State University, (srcML) Summer 2016
- Kyle Swartz, Kent State University, (srcML) Spring 2016
- Tessandra Sage, Kent State University, (srcML) Fall 2014
- Daniel Mosora, Kent State University, (TraceLab) Summer 2011
- Christian Newman, Kent State University, (TraceLab) Summer 2010
Undergraduate (Independent Study or Research)
- Michael Hayworth, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022
- Joshua Behler, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021
- Praxis (Gabriel) Weston, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021
- Michael Andrew Hayworth, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021
- Zachary Buchanan, Fall 2018, Spring 2019
- P.J. Leyden, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2019
- Vlas Zyrianov, Spring 2017, SURE Summer 2017, Spring 2018
- Patrica Jordan, Spring 2017
- Logan Baker, Fall 2018
- Mitchell Fulton, Spring 2018
- Daniel Bevilacqua, Spring 2018
- Michael Garlak, Spring 2018
- Abdel-Hakeem Badran, Spring 2018, Fall 2018
- Thomas Taylor, Summer 2015
- Kyle Swartz, Spring 2015
- Ben Freeman, Spring 2015
- Tessandra Sage, Fall 2014, Spring 2015
- Yasmine Sadid, Fall 2012
- David Steinberg, Spring 2012
- Thomas Mullaly, Spring 2010
- Richard Hildebrand, Spring 2010
- Brian Bartman, Fall 2009
- Michael Lopez, Fall 2009
- Matthew Suhay, Summer 2009
- Edward Morrison, Spring 2009
- Christopher Tuttle, Spring 2009
- Rodney Johnston, Fall 2006
- Kyle Stemen, Fall 2004
- James Brundage, Fall 2004
- Howard Bandy, Spring 2003
- Robert Beck, Fall 2002
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